The purpose of abortion is to terminate a pregnancy, not kill the fetus. If there was a way to remove the fetus from the woman's body without killing it, then the bodily autonomy argument would be moot. I disagree that women should be second class citizens the moment they become pregnant and lose their right to control who uses their body. There are other countries that don't value bodily autonomy like we do, for example China. They allow forced blood and organ harvesting. But they also forced women to have abortions when families were allowed only one child.

That's not abandonment, that's transferal of responsibility for the kid to someone else.

Safe haven laws are the definition of abandonment. Parents can even do it anonymously.

The issue isn't "pregnant women don't have rights", it's "parents don't have rights that would let them harm their children, and since women can't transfer parental responsibility before birth, they can't terminate their pregnancy".

Because they have uteruses that occasionally have other people in them?

So women should lose their rights when they get pregnant? Why don't we just force pregnant women to have blood and organs removed from them, since they don't have any rights to their own body? After all, think of all the people they could save!

Anyone can care for an infant once it's born. The bodily autonomy argument deals with the fetus literally using the woman's body to survive. And by literally, I mean literally, as in her blood and uterus.

Catholics not being considered Christians was historically pretty common in the United States. Especially since a lot of immigrant groups were Catholic, like the Irish. Many people thought John F. Kennedy was unelectable because he was Catholic and his term as President did a lot to make Catholicism more acceptable to the general public.

How many abortions actually occur in the third trimester, just because?

I crunched the numbers once and it was approximately 0.04% of all abortions. And these are just abortions that are not for the health of the mother or because the fetus has birth defects incompatible with life. A twelve year old being raped by her relative and not realizing she was pregnant until the third trimester would count as one of the 0.04%.

Sure people have all those rights and those rights are very important, but they are unambiguously superseded by someone else's right to life.

Actually in our legal system, bodily autonomy supersedes the right to life. Otherwise the government would force people to have blood drawn or organs harvested to save other people's lives. Even the bodily autonomy of a corpse is more important than the right to life.

Consent is an ongoing thing, unless you don't believe that rape can happen in marriage? After all, the woman consented to having sex with her husband when she married him. And there are plenty of women who get pregnant even though they used birth control.

It doesn't matter if the fetus is a person when it comes to bodily autonomy. One person does not have the right to use another person's body to sustain itself without consent. Bodily autonomy trumps the right to life in our legal system.

You should be aware of bodily autonomy which hasn't really been addressed. I think it's the strongest argument in favor of abortion being legal and I haven't yet heard an argument that refutes it. Basically it says that no one is allowed to use another person's body to sustain their life without consent. For example, no one can be forced by the government to have blood or organs taken from them even if it saves another person's life. Similarly, a woman cannot be forced to sustain a fetus' life with her blood and organs unless she consents. Even a corpse has bodily autonomy so why shouldn't women?

There are a lot of repercussions to getting baptized in some religions. For example, if you get baptized a Jehovah's Witness and later realize you no longer believe, you will be disfellowshipped and shunned by your family and friends. But if you haven't been baptized when you leave The Truth, your family and friends can still talk to you. (Although apparently they're getting more strict with that in recent years.)